“They may have been too enthusiastic on marginal loans,” said Ben Thypin, an analyst at Real Capital Analytics in New York. “Instead of finding excuses not to give a loan, it seems they found excuses to give a loan. They were viewed as money willing to take returns from riskier projects.”

Ben Carlos Thypin

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